On Mon, 13 May 2019 22:12:45 +0000, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: >I haven’t researched SMPE on this question for a long time. VB REXX elements >may be legal now. If you have any, that proves your case. > They always have been legal. IIRC, when Rexx first came to TSO/E v2, circa advent of MVS/XA, IBM issued a GIM recommending SYSEXEC have RECFM=VB, no line numbers, and mixed case for legibility.
IBM didn't follow its own advice. >OTOH it doesn't matter much because if there is even one each of FB and VB >elements, you still have the same problem with concatenation.. This will not >work: > >//SYSEXEC DD DSN=FB-PDS >// DD DSN=VB-PDS > True, but: //SYSEXEC DD DSN=FB-PDS // DD PATH='UNIX-Directory' and //SYSEXEC DD DSN=VB-PDS // DD PATH='UNIX-Directory' ... both work with the *very*same* UNIX-Directory. A strong argument for using the UNIX filesystem. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
